Northwestern Michigan College’s International Affairs Forum continues its 30th season on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Dennos Museum Center with a program by Lucy Hornby, Senior Associate at the Center for International and Strategic Studies. The program is presented in partnership with the Economic Club of Traverse City. The event is free for students and educators.
In 2023, Hornby was a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, where her research focused on the revival of the Chinese state and the rise of Xi Jinping during the reform era. She lived in China for almost 20 years, working as a journalist for Reuters and the Financial Times, before returning to the United States as a 2020 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She first moved to China in 1995, teaching English in Wuhan thanks to Princeton in Asia, a program that builds bridges between the United States and Asia. She has also reported on Asian energy markets and investment for Dow Jones Newswires and on Latin American energy investment for Energy Intelligence.
A fluent Mandarin speaker, Hornby has reported from every Chinese province and region, on topics ranging from elite politics to the trade war and environmental pollution. Her coverage was honored with the 2018 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award for excellence in business reporting, among other awards, for investigations into the ownership and financing of some of China’s largest and most opaque conglomerates.
The Feb. 15 in-person event at the Dennos Museum Center Milliken Auditorium is open to the public and available to livestream online. Admission is $15 per person. Admission is free for all students and educators. Doors open at 6 p.m.; the program begins promptly at 7 p.m.
For in-person tickets, online tickets, and all event details, visit TCIAF.com.
